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DNS Failover – Web Hosting

2009-09-22 DNS, Host Header, IP Address, Server Harry Caskey 0

If you are a hosting environment that is in more than one geographic location you will need to know DNS fail-over. This is a built in feature within DNS. Let’s say you are going to host a website, well you would configure your registrars DNS so that your A-Record’s (i.e. “www”, “@(no address)”) point to […]

Knowing DNS

2009-04-06 DNS, Host Header, ICANN, Intranets, IP Address, ISP, Portals, Server, TLD, Zone Records Harry Caskey 0

I started thinking about this last night. I know the significance of DNS within my field and I thought I would blog about it today. DNS is such a power tool, the average user uses it all the time and probably doesn’t know it. DNS plays a huge role in connection everyone to everyone. It […]

OpenDNS

2009-04-03 DNS, Fast Internet, OpenDNS, Safe Internet Harry Caskey 0

Ever since my friend Jason Clark has told me about OpenDNS it has been nothing more than a godsend. Immediately when we changed our XO Communications DNS servers to OpenDNS we saw a huge speed increase. Our speeds literally tripled what they were. I couldn’t believe the numbers but was ecstatic of the results. Our […]

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DNS Failover – Web Hosting

Knowing DNS

OpenDNS